Bio
Ahmad P. Tafti is an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics in the Department of Health Information Management within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is leading the Pitt HexAI Research Laboratory. Starting from August 2022, he serves our community as the Vice Chair of IEEE Computer Society at Pittsburgh. Ahmad P. Tafti is also affiliated with the Center for AI Innovation in Medical Imaging (CAIIMI).
He is working with multidisciplinary team of faculty members, students, and investigators to design, build, validate, and deploy “explainable” artificial intelligence (AI) components in different healthcare domains, mainly in orthopedic setting, musculoskeletal disorders and diseases, and pain management. Ahmad P. Tafti's research laboratory aims to make the healthcare better through the power of “explainable” AI. His research focuses on engineering, implementing, validating, and deploying cutting-edge fundamental and applied AI algorithms, and mainly promote their applications in healthcare problems. Ahmad P. Tafti's team are passionate for improving healthcare by better patient diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment using the power of advanced AI and machine learning algorithms combined with diverse and larg-columns of clinical data (e.g., medical images, clinical notes, radiology reports, patient-provided information, and electronic health records).
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Ahmad P. Tafti earned his BSc, MSc, and PhD all in Computer Science, with a focus on AI, computer vision, and machine learning/deep learning computational components, and since then, he has been on a quest to explore and solve problems that are “worth it” and have the most positive impact on people's lives. Ahmad P. Tafti has solid background in computer science, with an extensive research experience in AI-Enabled descriptive and predictive modeling, autonomous image and clinical text analytics and interpretation, plus big data processing to find solutions to a diverse set of problems in healthcare, ranging from 3D-2D medical image analysis to objectively and automatically predicting clinical outcomes and scientific visualization, as it has been already illustrated by his publication records.
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He takes an active interest in mentoring and teaching students, as it has been an important part of his appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (as a TA), at the University of Southern Maine, and now at the University of Pittsburgh. Ahmad P. Tafti has had substantial teaching experience in several undergraduate and graduate level courses. Examples include Introduction to Python for Health Informatics, Algorithms in Programming, Introduction to Database Systems, Capstone Projects, and Computer Vision.